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J. M. MUNGIVEN.

PAINT CAN PRESS.

Patented Jan. 18.1887.

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'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. MUNGIYEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PAINT-CAN PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part o Letters Patent No. 356,205, dated January 18, 1887.

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T @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it'known that I, JAMES M. MUNGivEN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Paint-Can Presses, of which the following is a specification.

Paint-can presses have been made in which the paint-can is received ou a table or base and a plunger fitting into the can is pressed down by a rack and pinion. In this kind of press there is nothing to hold up the plunger while the can is being put into place, and the weight of the plunger is constantly resting upon the paint and tending to force it up between the can and the plunger.

My improvement is made for overcoming these objections and for holding the plunger in any desired position, either elevated or pressed upon the paint.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the press.

partially in section, and Fig. .3 is a plan view.

The shelf or base a projects as a ring from the vert-ical standard b, and it is supported by brackets c c below the ring and diverging from the standard. This standard b is a hollowbar that is adapted to be screwed to a wall partition or stud, and at the upper end there is an arm, c, that projects outwardly and terminates as a hollow head, f, with a socket, g.

The vertical slide-bar 7i is Vshaped sectionally, and it slides in a corresponding bearing, z', in the head, and the face is guided by the cross-bar 7c, and in the face of this bar 7L are teeth. Y

In the hollow head f is the scroll-pinion Z, the arbor of which passes through 'the socket g and is provided with a crank-handle, m, and the inner end of the arbor passes into a square vrecess in the center of the scroll-pinion, and the screw n passes through the arbor and Fig. 2 is a side elevation,

screws into the center of the pinion to connect the parts together.

The face of the scrollpinion is conical, and it has one, two, or more scroll-threads upon it, fitting the teeth upon the faceof the slidebar h,- hence this scroll-pinion will raise or force down theaslide-bar h when the pinion is rotated, and it will keep the parts in any position to which they may be moved.

The slide-bar h is to be passed up through the ring-shelf a after the scroll-pinion has been put into place, and then the plunger o' is screwed or fastened to its lower end. This plunger i' is to4 be of a size to pass into the paint-can, and acts to press out the contents through a tube or cock when the scrollpinion is turned to force down the slide-bar and plunger. The can rests upon the ring-shelf a, and as cans adapted to this press are well known I have not represented or described the same.

The disk or plunger 1' can be disconnected by unscrewing it from the slide-bar and a different-sized disk substituted.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a paint-can press, with the toothed slide-bar and the hollow head, of the scroll-pinion within the head and having a central recess, the crank and the arbor for the same passing through a socket on the head, the end of the arbor being polygonal to t the recess in the pinion, and a screw passing through the arbor and into the scroll-pinion to connect the parts, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 19th day of July, 1886.

JAMES M. MUN GIVEN. 

